Microsoft, Novell Reach Accord on Linux — Microsoft Corp. reached a rapprochement with a major seller of the Linux operating system, a deal that makes a kind of peace between two opposing camps in the software industry. — The deal with Novell Inc. is designed to make it easier for customers …

Google in bid to halt YouTube legal threat — By Joshua Chaffin and Aline van Duyn in New York and Richard Waters in San Francisco — Google is engaged in a frantic round of negotiations aimed at persuading traditional media companies to supply their content to YouTube …

Knee deep in the big YouTube — The toughest negotiations in a corporate acquisition are usually carried out between the two companies directly involved and are completed before the merger agreement is signed. But with Google's $1.65 billion acquisition of YouTube, the real deal-making began …

Sorting Through the MothersClick Mess — The MothersClick mess is slowly sorting itself out. The founder emailed today and apologized. I apologized back. — Tonight I came across a post by their PR firm that is infinitely interesting to me (via DJI, a really excellent blog).

YouTube, Coming Soon to Your Cell Phone — We've been hearing about the possibilities of YouTube pushing mobile for awhile. A few people we have talked with in the mobile industry have said that the company has been burning the midnight oil working on getting a mobile offering out as soon as possible.

Q&A: Web science — Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee has said he wants to set up a web science research project to study the social implications of the web's development. — BBC Science Correspondent Pallab Ghosh talked exclusively to the British web pioneer about his plans. — PG: What is web science?

RANT: THE COMCAST HD DVR IS SIMPLY, TERRIBLY AWFUL — This has been boiling in me for a long, long time, and I need to get it out. Why? Well, last night the power went out at my house, not uncommon here in Marin, where the homes are old and the weather rainy.

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 — Intel successfully launched its eagerly-anticipated Core 2 Duo desktop processor line up in the middle of July, just a week before Chief Executive Paul Otellini started talking about the company's next move in the desktop microprocessor market.

Cingular launches "Cingular Music" — Well, it looks like that WSJ rumor we ran yesterday was pretty much spot on. Cingular is indeed launching a music service today, and we must say the scope of their undertaking is quite impressive: integration with three separate music stores, along with supplemental content aplenty.

Why Is Adobe Soundbooth Intel-Only? … Curiously, the Mac version only runs on Intel-based Macs. — A WEE BIT OF TECHNICAL BACKGROUND FOR NON-DEVELOPERS, WITH THE GOAL OF EXPLAINING THE DIFFICULTY OF DEVELOPING FOR MULTIPLE COMPUTER ARCHITECTURES, BUT WHICH WILL BE KEPT RELATIVELY BRIEF …

TinyPodcast: A week with a Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC — TinyPodcast: A week with a Samsung Q1 Ultra Mobile PC: Play Now | I wrote a teaser post a few days ago in ink, about a new device that I got to play with for a week. To top off that week in grand style, Brian and I got together to record a podcast, old-school style.

Gmail Offers to Open XLS in Spreadsheets — Caleb sent in a screenshot showing how Gmail suggests to open attached XLS (Microsoft Excel) files in Google Spreadsheets. I'm not sure if everyone can see this feature yet. — I guess we can expect much more of this cross-integration to be rolled …

SEO Salaries - How Much Should You Make — This is going to be a tough and contentious issue and one that isn't easy for me to write about. Along with the obvious internal conflicts of interest in disclosing salary numbers, there's bound to be a lot of companies and individuals …

Xbox Live to offer HD movie downloads? — There are wild rumors, and there are interesting rumors, but here's a doozy for ya: Xbox Live could soon start vending HD movie content, according to one freshly minted Wordpress blog (take that for what it's worth).